Platform One Find out what's broken

Platform One

Your business can run without you.

You already know that. We find the one thing stopping it.

Find out what's broken
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What we do

Find it. Fix it. Follow through.

One thing is holding the rest in place. We find which one, fix it with you, then measure again and show you it moved.

Where are you stuck?

The constraint moves as you grow.

Most owners are still solving the last stage's problem. Find your revenue band and read across.

The grid
$0 – $1M
What owners here think
You need better salespeople.
What usually caps it
It is you. Every decision and every deal still runs through one person.
First stint
$1M – $5M
What owners here think
You need to hire ahead of the growth.
What usually caps it
Nobody can do it to your standard yet, because the standard only exists in your head.
Race pace
$5M – $20M
What owners here think
You need better people.
What usually caps it
You need process. What worked on instinct stops surviving volume.
Pit strategy
$20M – $100M
What owners here think
You need to scale the team.
What usually caps it
You need managers who can decide without you. Most owners hire seats, not judgement.
Championship
$100M+
What owners here think
You need a bigger market.
What usually caps it
You need the business to outlive you. Every decision that is still yours is a discount at exit.

These are the odds, not your answer. Your business is capped by one of these, and the band tells you which is most likely. It does not tell you which is yours. That is what the audit is for.

What is this?

It's called Baseline.
A full audit of your whole company.

The deepest look at your business you have ever had.

We ask everyone separately, with no names on the answers, then measure the distance between what you believe and what they know.

That distance is the problem, and it is costing you money today.

What it covers

Three steps outside. Five sectors inside.

THE P1 METHOD FIND. FIX. FOLLOW THROUGH.

A racing lap is timed in sectors, because that is the only way to see which part cost you the race. We score a business the same way. Most owners are sound in four and losing in one, and almost nobody is losing where they expect.

  • S1FinanceWhere the money actually goes, and what it costs to find out late.
  • S2MarketingWhether new business arrives predictably or by luck, and whether the agencies and lead-gen firms you pay for are actually producing.
  • S3PeopleWho the work really depends on, and what stops without them.
  • S4OperationsHow the work moves, against how it is supposed to.
  • S5PerformanceWhether any of it is measurably better than last quarter.
How does the whole thing go?

Three steps, every time. Find it. Fix it. Follow through.

Most firms do the first one and call it a job. Almost nobody can do the third at all. Step one takes as long as your company is complicated, and we will tell you that number before we start.

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Step one · Find it

We audit the business, then sit down with you

You answer first, then your partners, then your team. Nobody sees anyone else's answers.

Plenty of owners stop here and go fix it themselves. That's a fine place to stop.

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Step two · Fix it

We come in and run the fix with you

A small senior team works your business alongside your people until the problem is gone. Nobody hands you a plan and leaves.

3
Step three · Follow through

We measure again and show you it actually moved

Almost nobody else can do this, for a boring reason: they never measured you before they started. We did, in step one.

The number either moved or it didn't.

What the weeks look like

We are in the business every week.

Every Monday, this lands in your inbox.

Platform One · Week 7 of 24
Approvals moved. Rework did not. Here is this week.
What moved
Choices needing your sign-off14 → 9
Average wait on a quote3.1d → 1.4d
Team agreement on who decides0.81 → 0.62
What is not working
Rework is flat. Same three job types coming back.no change
Two people still route everything through Dana.new
Do this week
  1. Give Marcus final sign-off on quotes under $10k. Tell the team in writing, not in a meeting. This is the single biggest thing on your list.
  2. Pull the last ten reworked jobs. Two of us will be on the call. We are looking for what all three job types share.
  3. Ask Dana to write down the two things only she can do. Fifteen minutes. We will use it next week.
Reply to this email with anything that did not go to plan. It changes next week's list.

Most consulting hands you a plan and leaves. The rest sits in a folder.

We're in the room. You get us for the week, then the next week, until it's fixed. The email is just how the week gets written down.

What it costs

Quoted per company, approved by you before anything starts. The weekly work is priced separately and begins in the six figures a year.

Who is behind this?

Somebody who has built and sold them, not just advised them.

$1B+
Capital raised,
structured, advised
4
Companies founded
and exited
8-figure
Exit multiples,
more than once
Two minutes on what we do and why

Founded, scaled and exited companies across finance, real estate, technology and education. Roll-ups, re-caps, and a few deals walked away from that looked good on paper and would have killed me.

Sat across from family offices, funds and institutional investors in the US and the Middle East. Raised, structured or advised on over a billion dollars.

The pattern that stuck was never about the money. It was watching what actually stops good companies from growing, and how rarely it is the thing the founder is focused on.

  • Founder · Align Equity Group, Lot 29 Capital, The Wealth Circle, The Come Up

  • Author · Capital Is the Game, a number one Amazon new release

  • Board · Chairman's Society, Make-A-Wish Southern Florida

  • Licensed · Series 65 and 63. Relevant to the regulated work, and not the reason anyone hires us.

Why us and not them

Deeper work. A fraction of the disruption.

The old firms put eight people in your building for six months. We use AI for the reading and the sorting, so a small senior team spends its time on judgement instead of paperwork.

Fewer strangers in your building, and no pyramid of analysts to pay for. A person reads every account and signs their name to every finding.

Start here

You already have
a theory. Test it.

Tell us what you think is holding the business up. We'll tell you whether the audit would settle it.

We take a handful at a time. Step three puts our people in your building.

See a worked example of a finding — six areas scored, and the one thing that was actually capping the business.